Hello, I'm Father Joe Roche of the Marian Fathers of the Immaculate Conception.

Thank you for joining us as we continue with our year-long journey reading the Diary of St.

Maria Faustina Kovalska from beginning to end.

Today we take up from where we left off, beginning with diary entry number 1772. Jesus said to me, my daughter, have you any difficulties in this retreat?

I answered that I hadn't. In this retreat, my mind is like lightning. I penetrate all the mysteries

of faith with great ease. My master and leader, all darkness disappears

from my mind under the ray of your light. Today, for your spiritual reading, you will take

the Gospel of St. John, Chapter 21. Let it feed your heart more than your mind. During the June devotions,

the Lord said to me, My daughter, my favor rests in your heart. When on Holy Thursday I left myself in the blessed sacrament,

you were very much on my mind. After these words,

my love made great efforts to express to him what he was to me, but I was at a loss for words

and burst into tears in my helplessness. And Jesus said,

For you, I am mercy itself.

Therefore, I ask you to offer me your misery,

and this very helplessness of yours,

and in this way you will delight my heart.

Today, a living flame of divine love entered my soul.

If it had lasted any longer, I would have been consumed by the fire, freeing myself

of the bonds of the present.

It seemed to me that if it had lasted an instant longer, I would have been drowned in the ocean of love.

I cannot describe these arrows of love that pierce my soul.

Conference on Mercy

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